Landis963

I've always pronounced it like "bye", but sharper.  (I presumed that if it was supposed to be the other way, her name would have been spelled "Shei".  

20 minutes ago, Toby_H said:

If summoning the blade of a "dead" sperm is not torture, and the Shardbearer is aware it is a dead sperm, it is my opinion it is not immoral to use it. 

Apropos of nothing, you may need to check your autocorrect.  

10 minutes ago, Wreith said:

I'm not talking about the beads. I'm talking about the crystals in the Pits of Hathsin that the beads are extracted from

Possibly.  I might be misremembering.  However, I also seem to recall that atium beads were found in geodes (which were found in jagged cracks, hence the scars of Kelsier et al.), which would look more like especially round stones than like a surprisingly fragile piece of rose quartz (as Mraize's crystal is described).  

20 hours ago, Wreith said:

I was sure I had seen confirmation somewhere that the crystal was an atium crystal from Scadrial, but I'm unable to find it again.

Atium beads are spherical, true, but they are very obviously metals.  Compare with Mraize's mysterious crystal, which is pink, obviously crystalline, and delicate, cracked "as though the act of setting it down had somehow crushed it" or a phrase to that effect. 

4 minutes ago, robardin said:

So, how about F-zinc (speed of thought) with A-bendalloy (speed bubble)?

Imagine having an aluminum gun and being surrounded by enemies, even Metalborn ones. You put up a speed bubble and shoot them all. But wait, there's a "refraction effect" when using projectiles in or out of a time bubble, which is difficult to account for when firing. Well, with practice and mental speed, you could work it out.

 

Feruchemical zinc would give you the optimal moment to drop the bubble and start firing.  Of course, Feruchemical steel would be better at timing, but you can't have only two feruchemical abilities outside of hemalurgy. 

1 hour ago, The One Who Connects said:

There are several limiting factors. More than you'd imagine, since you aren't limited by one of them.

• As Agent34 says, they are time consuming to draw out(can be negated by inscribing them on metal plates, but when the Aon setup to turn garbage into food would fill a room, this advantage is lessened)
• As Agent34 says, you have to make the precise lines every time(negated with inscribed plates, but those plates aren't erasable. You'd have to draw up another one to try something different next time)
• Sel itself is still limited by distance, making the Elantrian people powerful only near Elantris. They could conquer Arelon, but they aren't moving past it
• And the last one is the one we all forget: Knowledge. We can imagine Aon Grenades because we have a base to work off of. They don't. The rapid response idea for police/fire rescue would work wonders in a city like Elendel, but Sel doesn't have cities like Elendel. Etc...

Elantris and its suburbs might become the safest place in Arelon, though.  And with Raoden in charge, that rapid-response infrastructure might arise very quickly. 

On ‎9‎/‎21‎/‎2017 at 9:12 AM, jofwu said:

@Fatling That's not an error. "Overmastery" is when you use up dangerous amounts of your body's water. That doesn't happen to Kenton. His sudden loss of powers in volume 1 is a mystery at this point.

It is, however, a solvable mystery, given what we know of Realmatics and of Taldain.  (Arcanum Unbounded has the major clue in this regard, but applying rules learned in other works will help)

42 minutes ago, MadhavDeval said:

So I get that Odium splintered D and D so that no one would be able to pick up the shard. But what was it that prevented somebody from individually picking up the various bits of investiture and becoming a super shard like Harmony? I guess maybe it's a little harder now because a lot of the investiture has developed its own unique identity but what about before?

I'm probably missing something really basic here, aren't I?

Probably the only thing in the way is the lack of potential Vessels at the time.  We don't know what the "half-life" of undirected Investiture is, especially when forced into the Cognitive Realm as the Dor is.  (Although a lack of connection to the Spiritual Realm probably means that, w/r/t the Dor, it is a discrete segment of linear time, and not instantaeous)

20 minutes ago, Stormfather-in-Law said:

Wow, I mean, I may be insane, but that's crazy!

The main problem is that he's only got time for the audiobook.  Also, I may not be able to resist the temptation that long.  

8 minutes ago, king of nowhere said:

So they're using connection to speak and understand the local language? they don't actually take the time and effort to learn the local language? I mean, it makes sense, but I assume if one wants to stay on a planet for years he may want to study it a bit better.

Time and effort might be things that worldhoppers have in short supply, and without connection to bridge the gap learning any language is a pain.  Also, I don't think Zahel cares to actually learn Alethi. 

I, also, will be abstaining from any and all spoilers until Oathbringer is released.  I may even abstain longer, depending on when the audiobook comes out, and whether or not I read it in tandem with a friend of mine. 

1 hour ago, FiveLate said:

@Calderis

Looking at the free unfocused Investiture/splinters on each planet should help define how all the foci relate to each other.

• Seons take the shape of an Aon, and probably predate Odium coming to Sel.  

Seons do not predate Odium's arrival, by WoB. 

Sazed had all sorts of "jewelry" serving as his metalminds. Rings, bracelets, several earrings, eyeglasses, etc.  Despite that, they were still referred to as the "Bands of Harmony" in Era 2 Scadrial.  ("Replicas of the Bands of Mourning and the Bands of Harmony" are on display in the network of caves Harmony made from the supply caverns and the Pits of Hathsin, as seen in SoS) 

1 hour ago, Jude said:

always wanted to try horneater  stew

I suspect a bouillabaisse, with extra lobster or crab, would be a good facsimile of Horneater stew.  I kind of want to try chouta myself.  That or Tashikki pancakes.  

Kassar might have a few issues with the lack of safehand.  

On 9/7/2017 at 10:03 AM, Worldhopper said:

I would like to see Kaladin stuck in traffic. Storming fool doesn't even know what a bad day is. 

In fairness, Kaladin's had several very shitty days.  "Stuck in traffic" kind of seems like a first-world-problem, considering.  

4 minutes ago, robardin said:

Hmm. I like it.

Does that mean enjoying both ASoIaF and Stormlight Archive is a kind of Equivalent Exchange?

 

If you like Stormlight more, you're getting more out than you put in. 

I'll read it in the store, and if I don't come away feeling disappointed, I'll buy it.  

2 minutes ago, Draginon said:

He's going to need a different family to use as a threat at this rate. Also Jon can be put as maybe since isn't it supposed to be ambiguous at this point if he's dead or not?

Jon's death is not ambiguous.  (He was stabbed Caesar style, that's not something you walk away from) What's ambiguous is Melisandre's ability and willingness to rez him. 

Just now, Draginon said:

I mean by the end of Dance of Dragons since that's the latest book and I'm not counting Seasons 6 & 7 since they could be very different from Winds of Winter

I see.  If I remember correctly, by the end of A Dance With Dragons:

On ‎8‎/‎15‎/‎2017 at 8:13 AM, Draginon said:

@Extesian XD I would enjoy being friends with those two trolls!

How many Starks are left at this point? I know Arya, Bran and Jon but who is still alive there?

Define "this point?"  I think Sansa and Rickon are the only ones unaccounted for by your list. 

Didn't we have a thread like this already?  Also Dishonored is clearly Cosmere.  (It even has a Shard in residence!)

1 hour ago, Shellin said:

It's not a cosmere book, but I would have to guess his personal record is in A Memory of Light. The Last Battle has something like 71 POV changes in one (absurdly long) chapter.

That... would qualify.  

I was shooting the breeze with a friend not on the Shard, and the discussion dipped into the signature Sanderson Avalanche.  (Specifically, he'd just finished WoK, his first Cosmere book, and had noticed how often the perspective changed as the climax approached)  My question for the Shard:  What is Brandon's record for the greatest number of perspective changes in a single chapter?  I suspect it is Elantris (spec. the chapter where Raoden figures out how to undo the Reod) with 5 different POVs.  Is there a single chapter across all of Brandon's oeuvre that tops that?  

On 8/25/2017 at 9:22 PM, Oversleep said:

I mean, on Roshar - how would they shine? Black light?

I know there is darklight in the Gavilar's dark orb but I doubt it's Skybreaker gem

Like light through frosted glass, or something, I presume.